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Article: Humanist profile.(Peter Ustinov)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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"I'm depressed that once children are born they're so often neglected.... Our responsibility should be with children, not merely with embryos."
--Peter Ustinov, from an interview with Warren Allen Smith reported in Celebrities in Hell, 2002.
Peter Ustinov, an Oscar-winning actor, writer, and raconteur who referred to himself as "a citizen of the world" died at the age of 82 in Switzerland on March 28, 2004. Born in London to a family of mixed ethnicity, Ustinov described himself as "ethnically filthy, and proud of it."
A writer of plays, books, and film scripts, Ustinov also directed and starred in numerous films, plays, and operas and was the ...